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bedropping

bedropping is the present participle and gerund of bedrop.

Meaning of bedrop

Verb

bedrop (third-person singular simple present bedrops, present participle bedropping, simple past and past participle bedropped)

  1. (archaic) To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.
    • He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 1, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor &...

Questions about bedropping

What is bedropping the present participle and gerund of?
Bedropping is the present participle and gerund of bedrop.

Words near bedropping in the dictionary

  1. bedrooms
  2. bedroomsful
  3. bedroomy
  4. bedrop
  5. bedropped
  6. bedropping
  7. bedrops
  8. bedropt
  9. Bedrosian
  10. Bedrosians
  11. bedrot

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